Help, Please

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hello. I am a white male from Long Island, NY. I am currently applying to 15+ schools…

Prior to stats, I feel as though it goes as such

Heavy Reaches: Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UChicago, Columbia
Reaches: Cornell, Brown, Northwestern, Georgetown, UPenn, Johns Hopkins
Moderately on Target: UCB, NYU, American U
Safe: Stony Brook U, Fordham, Boston U

Of course, I only go by what I have seen and read, so for some kids they have 2400s and don’t get in and others they have 1800s and get in, so I leave you with that…

Rank: 2/326
GPA: 97.17 (4.0)
Weighted: 105.577
SAT: 2140 (680/780/680)
ACT: 32 (29,35,34,31) (Taking again in two weeks)
SAT II: USH 790, World History 730, Math I 730, Physics 690 (taking again in Nov.), Chem 680
(taking Lit, Math 2, and Physics for Nov.)
APs: World History: 5; US History: 5, Physics 1: 2, Psychology: 5, Lang and Comp: 4

Leadership Positions:
President of Class of 2016 (Whole School)
President/Founding Father of the “PEN Society”-- Writer of the PENstitution
Editor in Chief of the School Newspaper
President National Honor Society
Captain Varsity Academic Team
Knights of Columbus Squires: Bursar (Treasurer)
DECA: Treasurer

EC: All seriously involved in…
JV Boys Golf (8-10)
Varsity Boys Golf (11-12)
Newspaper Club (10-12)
Academic Team (11-12)
Math Team (10-12)
National Honor Society (11-12)
Spanish Honor Society (10-12)
DECA (9, 11-12)
Student Council (9-12)
Class Club (9-12)
JV Boys Soccer Manager (9-10)
PEN Society (11-12)
Knights of Columbus Squires (9-12)
Town of Babylon Youth Court (11-12)
Jazz Ensemble: (12)

Awards: AP Scholar with Honor (2015)
Suffolk County DECA Tournament: 5th place (2015)
NY State DECA Tournament: Qualified-- 5th Place (2015)
Qualified for National DECA Tournament in Orlando (2015)
Suffolk County Math Tournament: Qualified (2014)
(I may be forgetting something, my apologies…)

Volunteering:
S.E.C.C.A. After School Program for Underprivileged kids: 105 Hours (2013-2014)
Good Samaritan Hospital Volunteer: 110 hours (2014-)
Knights of Columbus Squires: 150 hours; community events, church events… (2012-)
Youth Court: 25 hours on real cases; 4 convictions… (2014-)
Misc: ~50 hours for school functions (back to school nights, parent teacher nights, etc.)
SAT Tutoring for Needy Children in HS: 20 hours

Work:
SAT Prep Company (Fall 2015)
Summer Day Camp (Summers 2014 and 2015)
High School Tutor

Senior Schedule:
Chamber Orchestra
AP Bio
AP Calc BC
AP Macro
AP Gov
AP Lit
College Spanish
AP Euro (self study)
AP Art History (self study)
College Oceanography
Stock Marketing

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Thank you in advance to all you geniuses out there!

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I feel you are missing a whole category of schools. You go from reach to safe with not much in between. How about BC, Wake, Colgate, Richmond, Tulane, Michigan

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Thank you, sir/madame. I also feel the same way, I just don’t know what middle schools I am looking for. Will definitely keep those in mind… Great help!

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If you are looking at your high reaches:
You need to highlight some of your EC’s with awards and achievements. Reaching nationals for DECA is good. Doing thousands of hours of community service won’t mean much to HPY as technically anyone can do it. (unless you got Eagle Scout or something). Any top academic applicant has NHS and Spanish honors society so not sure if it is worth putting it in there.
Your leadership is good, Class President always good to have (for HPY, perhaps it won’t help much)
Also it wouldn’t hurt to get your SAT/ACT score up and some of ur SAT II scores up. They are a bit low for the top schools. If you get those up then you can be more of a competitive applicant.

For your safeties and matches, I think you are good. Just try to get your SAT/ACT up because those schools are more quantitative and a higher SAT/GPA will make it easy for you to get accepted.

As always, make your essays as good as possible because they can distinguish you.

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Thank you! I will keep this all in mind.